Tuesday

Julian Date for June 11, 2024

Tuesday, June 11, 2024 is day 163 of 366 — the 163rd day of 2024. Written as a Julian date it is 2024163.

Julian date (YYYYDDD)

2024163

5-digit (YYDDD)
24163
Day of year
163
Zero-padded (DDD)
163
Julian Day Number
2460473
Julian Date at 00:00 UTC
2460472.5
Modified Julian Date
60472.0

How 2024163 is built

A Julian date in the day-of-year sense is just the year followed by the day number, counted from 1 January. June 11, 2024 is the 163rd day of 2024, so the code is 2024 + 163 = 2024163. Many systems drop the century and print 24163 instead.

2024 is a leap year with 366 days, so day numbers run from 001 to 366. After June 11, 2024 there are 203 days left in the year.

Careful: 24163 does not name a century

The 5-digit form 24163 only carries two digits of year, so on its own it is ambiguous. Day 163 of a year ending in 24 could equally be:

  • June 11, 2024 — the usual reading for a recent product code
  • June 11, 1924
  • June 11, 2124

If you are reading a code off packaging, the surrounding context — a shelf life of months rather than decades — almost always settles it.

Day 163 in nearby years

The same day number lands on a different calendar date depending on whether the year is a leap year. This is the single most common mistake when decoding a code whose year you had to guess.

YearJulian dateCalendar date
2021 2021163 June 12, 2021
2022 2022163 June 12, 2022
2023 2023163 June 12, 2023
2024 2024163 June 11, 2024
2025 2025163 June 12, 2025
2026 2026163 June 12, 2026
2027 2027163 June 12, 2027

Astronomical Julian Date for June 11, 2024

In astronomy, "Julian Date" means something different: a continuous count of days since noon on 1 January 4713 BC. The Julian Day Number for June 11, 2024 is 2460473 — that number covers the 24 hours from noon UTC on June 11, 2024 to noon UTC the next day.

  • JD at 00:00 UTC — 2460472.5
  • JD at 12:00 UTC — 2460473.0
  • Modified Julian Date (MJD) at 00:00 UTC — 60472.0

See Julian Day for where the count comes from, or the astronomical converter to include a time of day.

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